Best Minuses Poems

Easy Money

Buy now, pay later.

You’ve got credit!
We’ve got debt.

Let’s swap.

It’s how we derive
With asset backed securities

For your house equities

To burrow into your burdens
Our financial inequities

Those...

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There has always been an inter-outer over-under tender balance of loveless socio-equations as they super fit the psychosocial sexe-endices in this modern garner of pluses/minuses/bytes...

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It's been a while since I've told this tale
Thinking of it still makes me pale.
Was it hubris or foolishness or naivete'
That made me want to...

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Waking up to despair,
sadness,
bone-tired at war with a beeping alarm clock,
an alarming list of immediately urgent responsibilities
without an opportunity in sight,
or at least not this...

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We met out of circumstances
that would seem insignificant

But you've got that magic
of turning minuses to plus
as you always find a way
to solve for the x...

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It was warm today 
wasn't in the minuses 
dipping down again. 

Copyright © Cynthia Jones 
Jan.6/2014 

Today was the first day in the past couple...

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No youngster himself, Fred often repeats what his father used to say: 

"There are always preludes to hell." 

For Fred one of those preludes is...

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In the last four years I have had no seasonal allergies
Thanks to all of Chaga’s wonderful properties.
Then comes along spring of twenty seventeen
And I am...

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In dredging memory for childhood moments,
Those lingering longest in abysmal slumber.
I've searched for seed in crevice and shadow,
Absent of sound, I found inordinate number.

Exposed were...

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physics be time and
...time...
be the phys-hics of
...change...

andt

seen as time-bubble
...fizz-hics...
a cause-effect theory
...gauges...

whatever

be of an arithmetic count
...logic...
of pluses and minuses
...that...

differentiates all things wrt
...patterns...
called thee 'neutralities' in
...sciences...

arithmatics


stan sand...

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You can keep swinging in your smile
as your eyes see through the cylinder only
where the flowers radiate the scent
where the leaves wait for the rustle
of...

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May Mother Nature receive her due
For seasons of splendor each in kind
Contrasts noted in color and format
Starting with spring, her minuses few,
Then, summer in her...

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This is my heart
These are the instructions 
No pluses or minuses...

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If you know what you're sad about
What you're angry and mad about
     Be a bit of a gadabout
   ...

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I have trouble writing in free verse 
As though my Minds stuck in reverse
Every time I think of a rhyme
It is defiantly writing time

That’s something...

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